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Umang Swami, MD, on Prostate Cancer: Differences in Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Immune Landscape Based on Site of Metastasis

2024 ASCO GU Cancers Symposium

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Umang Swami, MD, of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, describes the molecular and immunologic mechanisms of metastatic tropism in advanced prostate cancer, data that may facilitate future drug development. In patients with metastatic disease, specific sites are associated with differential overall survival, but the biological reasons have not been fully explored (Abstract 21).



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